Combination garment for feminine wear



2 ASheets-Sheena' l ATTORN EY July 7, 1925.

. H. FRANKEL COMBINATION GARMENT FOR FEMININE WEAR Filed Jan. 22, 1925July 7, 1925.

H. FRANKEL.

COMBINATION GARMENT FOR FEMININE WEAR Filed Jan. 22,y 1925 NVENTORATTORNEY Patented July 7,- 19,25.2

UNITED STATES COMBINATION GARMENT FOR FEMININE WEAR.-

Application led January To all whom 'it may concern:

Be it known` that I, HERBERT FRANKEL, a citizen of the United States,and a resident of the borough of Manhattan, city, county, and State ofNew York, have invented a certain new and useful Combination Garment forFeminine Wear, of which the following is a specification suicient toenable those skilled in the art to which the invention appertains toutilize the same. l

The object of my invention is to afford a unitary combination andarrangement of step in corset and brassire whereby the brassire sectionor Iportion of the garment is detachably secured to the corset portionthereof, so as to facilitate change for cleaning, replacement, orsubstitution, etc., substantially in the manner hereinafter setforth,-theA invention consisting in the specific vformation andconstruction of .parts described and claimed whereby these and otheradvantageous results are attained.

In the accompanying drawings I illustrate a practical embodiment of theessential features of my improvements in a combination garment of thecharacter designated,

although 'I doI not restrict myself to the identical configuration andconstruction of component parts and appurtenances shown by way ofexemplification, since changes in form 'and make of`minor details, andequivalent expedients may be resorted to with like results, and withoutdeparting from the spirit and intent of my invention in Athis respect.

With this understanding Fig. 1, represents a perspective View of thebrassire section of the garment, detached;

Fig. 2, is a perspective view of the corset section of the garment,detached;

Fig. 3, a perspective view of the unitary combination of the two saidsections of the garment;

Fig. 4, is a detail section taken lupon plane 22, 1925. Serial N'o.3,932.

PATENT OFFICE..v

HERBERT ERANKEL, 0E NEW YORK, N. Y.A

Bassum or separated for any purpose desired, as lfor \the cleaning orrenovation of the brassire,

case of the permanent attachment between corset and brassire referredto, if it became desirable to wash the brassire portion of the garment,which is more or less exposed in use and has a tendency to become'soiledalong its upper edge and shoulderstraps, it has been necessary totightly hold the lower or corset portion f the garment duringl thecleansing process, a difficult and troublesome operation, or to resortto scissors. or equivalent means for the purpose of severing t-hestitching by which the parts were originally and integrally united toform a unitary brassire-trimmed corset, thus involving the reuniting ofthe componentparts of the garment by subsequent machine `or handstitching, or the discarding of the garmentlin its entirety and the pur-`chase of a new one.

I have herein shown the lower or corset portion C, of my combinationgarment as' of the well known continuous orI step-in type, although itmay be of the side hook or any other structure preferred;vv providedwith the usual elastic resilient side insertsc, c, the stili'eners c',o', and the pendent garters c2, c2, and otherwiseformed in ac-r cordancewith custom in this' and other re.- spects, a new feature however, inthe present case, being the, formation of the'corset body with frntvancl'rear upper extensions 03, 03,'

into which the stiffeners c', c', extend, as

of line L--l,'I `ig'. 3 through the conjunctiveHFig. 3, but also affordsupport for the adportion only of the front of the garment.

I am aware that heretofore corsets have been made with brassire portionspermanently incorporated therewith, and the novelty in the presentinstance consists es# sentially in so constructing both the corset andthe brassire that they can Abe conveniently but detachably connected insuch man-v ner as to constitute a single unitary garment,

jacent portions of the body of the wearer, and distribute the strain ortension incidental to the connective junction between the two parts ofthe unitary garment, as worn.I

' The connective means provided for detachably uniting the corsetsection C, and the brassire section B, may consist of hooks h, and eyese, as shown in the drawings, or

of snap hooks or other suitable or well known mechanical equivalents, asmay be preferred or found most expedient.

The brassire section B, shown in the drawings by way of exemplificationconsists of. a front panel b, and a rear panel b', united by theshoulder straps b2, b2. When made in two parts, as illustrated moreparticularly in Fig. 1, of the drawings, the side edges are formed tooverlap, and provided with series of interlocking devices, as the hooksh', and eyes e', or equivalent desirable fastenings; and the front andrear'lower edges of each panel are provided with means for attachment tothe upper edges of the corset, as by eyes e, engageable with hooks h,

holes, or any other expedient, with substan? tially like results.

In Fig. 2, the upper front edge of the corset is represented as turnedback in part to show the pocket groove c", formed, as heretofore stated,between it and the frontal extension 03, and'in Fig. 4, the characterand function of the enclosing pocket groove c", is illustrated more orless diagrammatbeing of course essentially the same in form andfunction. Thismethod of providing for the-isolation of the fasteningmeans is conducive to the comfort of the wearer, as well as apreventionof possible entanglement with, or injuryl tothe underwear.

As hereinbefore intimated, an advantage of this construction of thecomponent parts of my combination garment is the fact that the brassiremay be speedily and easily removed from the corset, washed, ironed andlaundered, or treated in any'wa'y desired, and then replaced on thecorset without affecting or injuring the latter in any mannerwhatsoever,-or a substitution, of brassire effected when necessary ordesirable.

What I claim as'rny invention and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

A combination garment of the character described, comprising a corsetsect-ion and a brassire section, and means for detachably uniting saidcomponent parts, the corset section being formed withlfront and rearupward extensions forming with the overlying portion `ofA the' corsetfront and rear pocket-s for the said uniting means.

4 HERBERT FRANKEL.

Witnesses: f'

. GORDON S. P. KLEEBERG,

JACOB M. ROSENFELD.

